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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – BGI said yesterday that it has formed a new division, BGI Groups USA, in Seattle, to expand its international footprint.

The company, which is headquartered in Shenzhen, China, said that the new division will enable it to expand partnerships with universities, companies, and health and agriculture-related organizations; and support communications and branding, product development, and investment.

The Human Gene Mutation Database (HGMD) is a manually curated, comprehensive collection of disease-causing, germline mutations. Since 1996, a team of experts has manually catalogued over a quarter of a million mutations for the database.